Sean Ragan tells the maker’s tale of how his friction-only mirror hanger came into being: Sometimes I like to peruse the snooty design catalogs. On the one hand, while I’m sickened by the notion of anyone paying thousands of dollars for a chair, those “name” designers often have clever ideas that are easily liberated to […]
The BeagleBoard is an incredibly little embedded system. It’s Linux-powered, easy to hack, and has lots of connectors; everything from an expansion port with GPIO/I2C/SPI on up to HDMI. Pair it up with Arduino (don’t miss our great Arduino gift guide), and you’re unstoppable. Enrique wrote in to tell us about the amazing BeagleBoard-powered project […]
This hefty clock uses classic bells and binary display – and it knows where you are! The case measures about 15×13×8 centimeters. The bells which I happened to have lying around are from a very old telephone and were the remains of my very first electronics project (which was about seven years ago). The most […]
Gio sent in a link to this interesting preamp. The builder was able to make the preamp with parts on hand. I’m not sure I would have the tubes, but the rest of the parts are fairly common. [Thanks Gio] I was pleased with how well it turned out, at 30 bucks it looks pretty […]
Flowers by Jan van Nuenen was created using a Monome controlling Ableton Live via a max/msp patch called boiingg. I really like the combining of music and video into one piece of performance art. Live generates a string of midinotes with velocity 0 to 20 and back to 0. The velocity channel is used to […]
Need to spice up your greenhouse? Start a Crash Bonsai garden! CrashBonsai is the creation of John Rooney, an artist who is torn between the desire to create and destroy. Recently, he has been making bonsai plants, and combining them with model cars and trucks which he has creatively smashed and melted, to create “CrashBonsai,” […]
Evidently the people of New Mexico have seen it all. Even robolegs gone wild! Carlos is a robotic everyman. He’s not one of those fancy deep sea dwelling, swimming pool competing, publicity hogging, multiple kill, or planet exploring robots, just a regular robot doing his thing like us humans. Carlos was a college kinetic sculpture […]
